TWERTON...
...was the name derived from Twiverton, meaning two-ford, a Saxon hamlet some two miles from Bath on the Bristol side. Dependent upon the cloth-trade it was probably where Chaucer’s Wife of Bath came from. In 1847 the Carr family arrived from Penrith. They resurrected the woollen mills and took a leading part in encouraging the social life of the community. Twerton became part of the City of Bath in 1911.